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"Do we (in Europe) have to be worried about Huawei or other Chinese companies?" Ansip asked during a press conference in Brussels.
"Yes, I think we have to be worried about those companies because they set new rules according with their IT companies, their producers," Ansip said.
"They have to cooperate with their intelligence services. And this is about mandatory backdoors," the former prime minister of Estonia added.
He said he has long opposed such backdoors where the firm may use chips to obtain secrets from customers, though he pointed out little was known about concrete cases.
"It's not a good sign when companies have to open their systems for some kind of secret services," he added. "As normal ordinary people of course we have to be afraid."
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